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I will maintain this until it stops working, but this package should be considered "legacy" and the new Reference Manager (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mendeley-reference-manager) preferred.

More Info: https://blog.mendeley.com/category/new-release-2/

To avoid crashs when opening PDF's, and hangout on exit install mendeleydesktop-bundled which packages Qt provided by the upstream.

There may be a slight bug in the install-mendeley-link-handler.sh script (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/mendeley-aur-and-ld-library-errors/75931).

This should do the job:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 69ac243..80f8510 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ package_mendeleydesktop-bundled() {
     conflicts=('mendeleydesktop')
     cd "$pkgbase-$pkgver-linux-$CARCH"

-    sed -i 's/Exec=/&LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/opt\/mendeleydesktop\/lib\/mendeleydesktop\/plugins\/platforms /' bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh
+    sed -i 's/Exec=/&env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/opt\/mendeleydesktop\/lib\/mendeleydesktop\/plugins\/platforms /' bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh

     install -d "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbase"
     cp -a bin lib share "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgbase/"

It won't replace an existing mendeleydesktop.desktop file but it will help for new users.

Please change line78 of PKGBUILD to:

sed -i 's/Exec=/&env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\/opt\/mendeleydesktop\/lib\/mendeleydesktop\/plugins\/platforms /' bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh

in order to stop ld_library path errors

Your whole system does not look healthy...

I'm on an updated 64bit Arch and I'm experiencing frequent Gnome-shell (in libgnome-shell.so) crashes while doing various actions in mendeleydesktop-bundled. Usually this happens when I add a new PDF or when I try to export to a .bib file.

Here the log of the last crash: https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/9kk58ZfiICU89QeUUWrumQ

@gaelic I don't see this issue in KDE. Have you checked your ~/.local/share/applications/mendeleydesktop.desktop? I' d suggest you edit it here and use it instead of the one in the package to keep it simple.

Hey, can you please add

StartupWMClass=Mendeley Desktop

in the .desktop file. This would prevent double entries in the gnome-shell (if you have mendeley as a favorite and after you start it)

Thanks.

My recommendation: use zotero. It has the same futures plus an extension, web API, free sync, it's Open Source and it just works under Linux.

Several years ago I started with mendeleydesktop because it was the only tool of its kind, but now it just pales in comparison.

The last update ruins the .desktop file after every update. The one in /usr/share/application is fine, however, there is always one under ~/.local/share/application which makes it fail. If I remove it, it is copied there again after bootup.

I am using the bundled version.

There were changes in Qt5.12 in WebEngineCore. You'll have to use bundled version unfortunatelly. Lets hope that the upstream rebuilds with new Qt...

Get some problems with the most recent version. When I close the app, it doesn't stop, I have to use "kill" after that. Running in terminal gives me that:

$ mendeleydesktop Failed to run mendeley:// link handler installer "/opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh" /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess --type=zygote --webengine-schemes=qrc:sLV --lang=en-US: relocation error: /opt/mendeleydesktop/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess --type=zygote --webengine-schemes=qrc:sLV --lang=en-US: symbol _ZN7content20localtime_r_overrideEPKlP2tm version Qt_5 not defined in file libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5 with link time reference